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Browsing by Author "Gupta, Damini"

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    Data from: Distribution of distances between DNA barcode labels in nanochannels close to the persistence length
    (2015-02-14) Reinhart, Wesley F; Reifenberger, Jeff G.; Gupta, Damini; Muralidhar, Abhiram; Sheats, Julian; Cao, Han; Dorfman, Kevin D.
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    Data from: Evaluation of Blob Theory for the Diffusion of DNA in Nanochannels
    (2018) Gupta, Damini; Bhandari, Aditya Bikram; Dorfman, Kevin D
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    Data from: Experimental evidence of weak excluded volume effects for nanochannel confined DNA
    (2015) Gupta, Damini; Miller, Jeremy J.; Muralidhar, Abhiram; Mahshid, Sara; Reisner, Walter; Dorfman, Kevin
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    Data from: Mixed Confinement Regimes during Equilibrium Confinement Spectroscopy of DNA
    (2014-06-04) Gupta, Damini; Sheats, Julian; Muralidhar, Abhiram; Miller, Jeremy J.; Huang, Derek E.; Mahshid, Sara; Dorfman, Kevin D.; Reisner, Walter
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    Data from: One-parameter scaling theory for DNA extension in a nanochannel
    (2017) Werner, Erik; Cheong, Guo Kang; Gupta, Damini; Dorfman, Kevin D.; Mehlig, Bernhard
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    Static and Dynamic Properties of DNA Confined in Nanochannels
    (2017-10) Gupta, Damini
    Next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques have considerably reduced the cost of high-throughput DNA sequencing. However, it is challenging to detect large-scale genomic variations by NGS due to short read lengths. Genome mapping can easily detect large-scale structural variations because it operates on extremely large intact molecules of DNA with adequate resolution. One of the promising methods of genome mapping is based on confining large DNA molecules inside a nanochannel whose cross-sectional dimensions are approximately 50 nm. Even though this genome mapping technology has been commercialized, the current understanding of the polymer physics of DNA in nanochannel confinement is based on theories and lacks much needed experimental support. The results of this dissertation are aimed at providing a detailed experimental understanding of equilibrium properties of nanochannel-confined DNA molecules. The results are divided into three parts. In first part, we evaluate the role of channel shape on thermodynamic properties of channel confined DNA molecules using a combination of fluorescence microscopy and simulations. Specifically, we show that high aspect ratio of rectangular channels significantly alters the chain statistics as compared to an equivalent square channel with same cross-sectional area. In the second part, we present experimental evidence that weak excluded volume effects arise in DNA nanochannel confinement, which form the physical basis for the extended de Gennes regime. We also show how confinement spectroscopy and simulations can be combined to reduce molecular weight dispersity effects arising from shearing, photo-cleavage, and nonuniform staining of DNA. Finally, the third part of the thesis concerns the dynamic properties of nanochannel confined DNA. We directly measure the center-of-mass diffusivity of single DNA molecules in confinement and show that that it is necessary to modify the classical results of de Gennes to account for local chain stiffness of DNA in order to explain the experimental results. In the end, we believe that our findings from the experimental test of the phase diagram for channel-confined DNA, with careful control over molecular weight dispersity, channel geometry, and electrostatic interactions, will provide a firm foundation for the emerging genome mapping technology.